Google and Bertelsmann expand digital scholarship programme

Bertelsmann and Google are between them to fund 75,000 scholarships through US online education provider Udacity, in which Bertelsmann has a stake. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Google and Bertelsmann expand digital scholarship programme'


Creative industries survey from Bertelsmann

A higher proportion of the UK population reads books on a weekly basis than in France or Germany... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #weekly basis


Brussels relaunches competition complaints against Google

An agreement between the European Commission and Google over alleged abuses of its dominant... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #european commission


Innovating to Enable Storytelling in a Digital Age

The CEO of Beneath the Ink, a former Time Warner Cable executive, delivers lessons learned from the digital transformation of the cable industry. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital age #digital transformation


Online Publishers Association Announces Rebrand to Digital Content Next

The organization formerly known as the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has announced a new name, Digital Content Next, a rebrand that signals a renewed focus on defining and confronting critical, big picture issues that its members face when crea ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital content #renewed focus


European court rules that libraries can digitize books

The European Union's highest court has ruled that libraries can digitize books without the permission of copyright holders. The court argues that libraries have the right to provide free information to the public and don't need to obtain licensing if they want to make books available to users... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digitize books #european union #copyright holders #make books


News Corp: Google is a 'platform for piracy' with 'cynical management'

News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's media behemoth, is the latest source of criticism of Google. Robert Thomson, the chief executive of the company -- responsible for the Times and the Sun in the UK as well the book publisher HarperCollins -- has written to the European Commission to complain that the... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #rupert murdoch #media behemoth #robert thomson #european commission #search giant #stifle competition


HarperCollins Adds Digital Watermarks to E-books

HarperCollins has started using Digimarc Corp.’s watermarking system for ebooks to provide an extra layer of security to the sale of HC’s digital content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital content


Google Hires P&G's Top North America Media Executive

Google has added one more to its growing collection of packaged-goods marketing executives -- Julie Eddleman, who was the top U.S. media executive of the biggest U.S. advertising spender, Procter & Gamble Co.Jodi Allen, VP-North America brand of P&G and Ms. Eddleman's boss, has assumed... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #procter gamble #kantar media #key role #rising star


Avon launches digital-first imprint

HarperCollins commercial imprint Avon is launching a new digital-first imprint, Maze, with the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


EU court rules libraries can digitize books without permission

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that libraries have the right to digitize books and distribute them to dedicated reading terminals without first obtaining the publisher's permission. The decision rests on exceptions built... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digitize books


Indies First Movement Expands

The ABA will launch a second, larger Indies First/Small Business Saturday campaign this Thanksgiving weekend. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #thanksgiving weekend


EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize, But Not Distribute

In a directive issued this week, a European Union court held that European libraries can digitize works in their collections but, without an explicit exception by a member state, are limited to displaying digitized works at dedicated reading terminals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #european libraries #eu court


Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules

European libraries may digitize books and make them available at electronic reading points without first gaining consent of the copyright holder, the highest European Union court ruled Thursday.The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a case in which the Technical University of... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #european libraries #technical university #digitize books #copyright holder #electronic textbooks #news release


Conde Nast Is Looking to Hire a Top Digital Executive

Conde Nast, the publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair, is looking to hire an executive to lead its digital efforts, Ad Age has learned.It could not be determined precisely what responsibilities the post will entail, and it remains possible that Conde Nast won't fill the position, which is not... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital president #conde nast #vanity fair #job openings #direct knowledge #person added


Google Settles Infringement Suit with Photographers

Google has reached an agreement with a group of photographers to settle charges involving its scanning project. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #scanning project


Frey's Full Fathom Five Launches Digital Imprint

Full Fathom Five Digital will be overseen by the newly appointed director of digital publishing Samantha Streger, who joined the company in April from Open Road. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #open road


Can Onix 3.0 Create a Global Digital Publishing Industry?

Standards are like plumbing: they are only noticed when they don’t work. And like plumbing, retrofitting a 200-year-old structure—legacy publishing—with new metadata standards to improve commerce in the digital age is, at best, a complex process. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #metadata standards #digital age


Digital Printing for Every Stage in a Book’s Life

Multinational publishers know that regional book editions increase their options for selling titles, especially in the education segment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digital printing #multinational publishers #selling titles #education segment


Publishers urge European Commission to reject Google antitrust deal

European periodical and online publishers have urged the European Commission to reject Google’s latest proposal to settle an antitrust case.The commitments proposed by Google would not stop the company’s “abusive promotion of its own services,” the publishers said in their response, sent to the... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #european commission #latest proposal #antitrust case


Amazon launches children's books KDP programme

Amazon has launched a dedicated self-publishing service for children's books, KDP Kids.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |